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PHARMACISTS (continued): • Not all of the innovations of pharmacists were DEERE. (continued): medical. In JOHN 1885, aDEERE. young Waco, Texas pharAlderton, was working at Mor•macist, It wasCharles while living in Illinois that John norison’s Corner Drug when he inventticed Old the problems that Store farmers faced when to atill soil. Because the the areaWaco. had edattempting a recipe for soft drink he called formerly beenowner woodland, the soil was rich The drug store renamed the drink after with hummus, which clumped andAfter clungyears to a friend of his, Dr. Charles Pepper. bladeslocal, of thethe plows farmers were accusofthe staying beverage was introduced to using. While repairing a broken totomed the public at the 1904 World’s Fair incirSt. cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. Louis, where 20 million people sampled it. He The his smith is skills to fashion the major steel Dremployed Pepper Company America’s oldest blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed manufacturer of soft drink concentrates.
two wooden spokes, then hitched the device • After in theIllinois Civil soil War, to a being horse. severely It plowedinjured the heavy Atlanta Johna farmer Pemberton adlike a pharmacist charm. In fact, who became happened dicted to morphine to ease his pain. Wanting to be observing the test run immediately putto find a cure 1866, he began in an orderfor forhis hisaddiction, own John in Deere plow. experimenting with opium-free painkillers and • In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith came up with Pemberton’s French Wine Coca, shop and focused on making plows. The proclaiming his popular invention a “nerve toncompany grew steadily and added many emic” and “headache remedy.” When Atlanta enactployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the edentire temperance laws, was compelled to find an operation to he Moline, Illinois. Ashamed alcohol-free sugar John replacing of his ownformula, lack of with education, sent wine his aschildren the sweetener. His tonic became a refreshing to the state’s finest schools. One of soda instead, known as Coca-Cohis fountain proudest drink days occurred when son Charles la.earned Unfortunately, when Pemberton passed away the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s at Commercial age 57, he was still addicted to morphine. College in Chicago. • Pepsi-Cola also camemanaging from thetheefforts of a • With his son Charles company, pharmacist, Caleb Bradham. In 1893, this John found time to pursue philanthropic inNew Bern, North Carolina pharmacist comterests. He co-founded both the First Nationbined colaand nutthe extract, vanilla, and “rare oils,” al Bank First Congregational Church. and it Brad’s Drink.ofHe invented it in Hecalled was elected the mayor Moline in 1873, anwhere effortone to help patrons improve their health, of his first actions – the replacebelieving his concoction ment of that the city’s open drainsaided with digestion. a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reducBecause the pepsin enzyme does in fact aid diing the spread of disease. gestion, in 1898, Bradham renamed his beverPepsi-Cola, evenDeere thoughlogo, he didn’t add pep•age The original John registered in sin1876, as andepicted ingredient. a deer that was native to Africa. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, was re-to • Other favorite fountain drinks were itbrought with the image of Hires, a Northdeveloper Americanof usplaced by pharmacist Charles white-tailed deer. In the decades Hires root beer, and James Vernor, that who folconlowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took cocted ginger ale. over as the symbol of the John Deere brand. Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable, but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.
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